Open AccessCorpus Callosotomy for Refractory Seizures in a Patient with Cortical Heterotopia: Case Report
Author(s) -
Michael Stearns,
Aizik L. Wolf,
Elizabeth Barry,
Gregory K. Bergey,
Fouad Gellad
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
neurosurgery/neurosurgery online
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.485
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1081-1281
pISSN - 0148-396X
DOI - 10.1227/00006123-198910000-00019
Subject(s) - corpus callosotomy , heterotopia (medicine) , medicine , intractable epilepsy , epilepsy , epilepsy surgery , cerebral cortex , neuroscience , pathology , psychiatry , psychology
Heterotopia of the cerebral cortex, a disorder of neuronal migration, may be associated with medically intractable seizures. We report on a patient with bihemispheric cortical heterotopia who had medically intractable atonic seizures that were successfully treated by corpus callosotomy. The clinical and radiographic aspects of cortical heterotopia and the surgical management of seizures associated with heterotopia are discussed.